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12     The <strong>Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition</strong> gathers together in the virtual space
13        of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand. Through digital
14        reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of
15        original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and
16        private collections. Unlike the famous printed novels, all published in a short span between
17        1811 and 1818, these manuscripts trace Jane Austen’s development as a writer from childhood
18        to the year of her death; that is, from 1787 (aged 11 or 12) to 1817 (aged 41). Not only do
19        they provide a unique visual record of her imagination from her teenage experiments to her
20        last unfinished writings, these pages represent one of the earliest collections of creative
21        writings in the author’s hand to survive for a British novelist.</p>
22      <div class="image" style="float:left; padding-right:15px"><div class="t03"><dl style="width: 436px;"><dt><img src="/images/full/homepage.jpg" alt="Excerpt from Persuasion" width="436" height="273" /></dt><dd><a href="manuscripts/blpers/1.html">Excerpt from Persuasion</a></dd></dl></div></div><p>The main resources in the digital edition are the manuscripts themselves, accessed through
23        the manuscript menu and grouped chronologically and according to their material states as
24        fair copies (the <a class="int" title="Link to Volume the First" href="manuscripts/blvolfirst/Front_(left)_board.html">Juvenilia</a> and <a class="int" title="Link to Lady Susan" href="manuscripts/lady_susan/Front_(left)_board.html">Lady Susan</a>), working drafts (<a class="int" title="Link to The Watsons (1)" href="manuscripts/pmwats/1.html">The Watsons</a>, <a class="int" title="Link to Two Chapters of Persuasion" href="manuscripts/blpers/Front_(left)_board.html">Persuasion</a>,
25        <a class="int" title="Link to Sanditon" href="manuscripts/sanditon/b1-1.html">Sanditon</a>), and further materials. Each manuscript can be opened in a variety of ways: as
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27        with the original manuscript page; or through a Headnote that provides details of the
28        manuscript’s history and physical description. Click on <a class="int" title="Link to Manuscripts index" href="manuscripts/index.html">Manuscripts</a> in the main menu.</p>
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34        whole body of the manuscripts.</p>
35      <p>The digital edition was updated on <strong>31 July 2012</strong> to reflect the change in ownership of the larger portion of the manuscript of The Watsons (see Head Note to The Watsons) and to address issues that had arisen in the alignment of transcriptions owing to adjustments in the size and display of the Georgia font.</p>
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